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'''The Stuart House Recordings '''

Although The Stuart House Recordings purports to be documentary film, It is being released under the horror genre. It is the directorial debut by, Lancelot Jean Mallia and Kevin Bingham.

The narrative is presented as a documentary pieced together from partially completed footage, and filmed in real time. The film was produced by the Iron Dragon Films production company. There is also a wealth of background information that the audience can unearth via the internet on their own. The film documents a team of ghost hunters who in 2013 are investigating a haunting, Stuart House, located in Venice, Lousiana. The documentary crew follows the investigations of the team who along the a portion of the film crew subsequently go missing.

The viewer is told that this first film is part of a set of five recordings. We believe that there are sequels planned to be released.

PLOT

Responding to a request by the current owners of Stuart House; the ghost hunting team, Paranormal Searchers begin an investigation of the house while they are being filmed by the documentary company Iron Dragon LTD. Stuart House, the focus of their study, is also known for the 1975 investigation by Dr Francis Morgan of Amityvile Horror fame. As things progress, on the basis of the teams findings, and a preliminary investigation, the team decides it's a viable haunting and worth further study. The group plans a weekend long investigation of the house while the owners are out of town. As the investigation progresses though, a disquiet begins to fall over the group along with documentary team that's filming. They begin to suspect that there is more at work within the house than a simple haunting. A word to those who should go snooping beware!

Style
The movie is rather unusual in the fact that it falls solidly under several styles.

1. Cinéma vérité (French: [sinema veʁite], "truthful cinema"; English: /ˈsɪnɨmə vɛrɨˈteɪ/) is a style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics.

2. Stuart House Recordings also falls under the relatively new style of "[Found Footage]" horror genre. This style was made famous by the Blair Witch and Cloverfield movies.

3. [Transmedia storytelling] Stuart House Recordings also seems to be one of, if not the first movie, expressively designed from the get-go to be a transmedia story telling experience. Where the movie simply tells one element of the entire story. Transmedia uses multiple media platforms to tell the overall story. The movie, in this case The Stuart House Recordings being but one section of the storytelling tapestry. For an example see: The Kaplan Papers

Critical response
Critics have noted that as a horror film, it displays heavy influence of Asian horror and H.P. Lovecraft overtones.

Release
The film is scheduled for release Fall, 2015, according to the Iron Dragon Films blogsite.

References

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